These proceedings are composed of papers presented at the 1993 and 1994 Annual Meetings of the Midwest Philosophy of Education Society. The collection is divided into four parts. Part 1 includes: "Failure, Philosophy of Education, and the Music of the Spheres" (David B. Owen); "What Has Philosophy of Education Come To?" (Lawrence J. Dennis). Part 2 covers the 1993 meeting and includes: "Hegel's Influence on the Social and Educational Thought of John Dewey" (Marianne S. Glazek); "How the Concept of Transaction Redefines Subjectivity within Dewey's Theory of Knowledge" (Jeanne Connell); "Why American College of Education Do Not Produce Master Teachers" (Don G. Smith); "Is There a Correlation Between Philosophic World-Views and Social Theories" (Robert N. Barger); "Pragmatics and Identifying Disciplines" (Thomas Kowall); "William James on his 'Talks to Teachers' and on Teachers Themselves" (Harry J. Farnon); "The John Dewey Publications" (Jo Ann Boydston); "Vices and Virtues: A Common Place Between Freud and Aristotle" (Joseph Yacoub); "Biographical Ethics..." (Robert Craig); "Children Dying with Dignity: Another Remembrance of Janusz Korczak" (Ronald Swartz); "Deja vu All Over Again a la Dewey" (James R. Biddle); "Experience as Improvisation" (R. Keith Sawyer); "Peter McLaren and Critical Pedagogy" (Martin McKeown); "Corinne Aldine Seeds: Parallels with John Dewey and Rudolf Steiner" (Nancy Helen Goldsmith Rose); "Moral Character and Moral Conduct..." (Ronald Lee Zigler); and four papers on the theme 'Popular Film as Educational Ideology': "A Framework for Critical Analysis" (Michael J. Oliker); "Cinematic Muse, Where do you Lead?" (Matthew E. Creighton); "'The Blackboard Jungle'" (Gene D. Phillips); "Public Ambivalence Toward Teachers as Reflected in American Film" (Don G. Smith). Part 3 covers the 1994 meeting and includes: "Philosophy of Education in the Post-Analytic Period" (Jerome Popp); "Physiological Basis for the Pragmatic Process of Learning" (George W. Stickel); "African-American Philosophy of Education" (Charlesetta M. Ellis); "Agapism Applied" (Mala Preast); "Using the Visual Arts as a Formal Pedagogic Tool..." (Thomas A. Lifvendahl; Debbie Smith-Shank); "Using Semiotic Reasoning in Empirical Research..." (Gary Shank); "Peace Education: A Modern Educational Reform" (Ian M. Harris); "Roman Catholic Values Statements Affecting American Catholic Education" (Michael T. Risku); "The Educational Theory of Thomas Merton" (Robert P. Craig); "Creativity: Are We Doing Enough?" (David B. Annis); "The Place of Neutrality in the Confident School" (Jon Fennell); "Dewey's Theory of Experience at the Heart of Literature" (Sonja Darlington); "Review of 'The Collected Works of John Dewey'" (Philip L. Smith). (KCM)